# Samuel Sze > Lead Product Designer at RingCentral Location: San Mateo, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/samuelsze Samuel Sze is a San Francisco based user experience designer with 12 years of work experience. His passion is in creating remarkable product experiences that are not only targeted and smartly designed, but also inspiring and fun for the user. His skills include product development, interaction design, user research, prototyping, brand strategy, and visual design. He has degrees in architecture and business, and his work has included acclaimed and award winning workplace design projects for companies such as the Boeing Company, the McKinstry Innovation Center, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, Salesforce, T Mobile, and William Blair. Currently, Sam is Senior Product Designer at DNN Software, where he is helping to build an omnichannel content management system that is simple, user friendly, and powerful, empowering organizations to reach audiences on any channel or device. http://www.samuelsze.net ## Work Experience ### Lead Product Designer @ RingCentral Jan 2022 – Present | Belmont, California, United States ### Senior UX Interaction Designer @ RingCentral Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Belmont, California ### Senior Product Designer @ Walmart Labs Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Senior Product Designer @ DNN Corp. Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area Senior Product Designer for a CMS product that makes it easy for content managers to build and manage a structured repository of "liquid content", publish to diverse channels and devices, and measure the performance of that content. ### UX / Product Design Lead @ Compgun (YC W16) Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 Head of product design for a Y Combinator backed startup, working closely with the founders to create a new SaaS platform that simplifies building, optimizing, and administering sales commission plans, while surfacing real time data to managers and sales reps to drive performance. ### UX / Product Design Lead @ IdeaScale Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 Responsible for all aspects of ux / product design at IdeaScale, wearing many hats. Head of the product and design team for a full featured social web application, working closely with development team in an agile environment. Collaborated with stakeholders, conceived of new features and solutions, managed product roadmap, worked to improve usability of existing features. Redesigned all front facing, as well as administrative functions of the application, including information architecture, interaction design, and visual design, migrating the app to a new modern, mobile responsive site. Also led project for the design of a native mobile application for iOS and android. Involved in rebranding efforts including design of IdeaScale's new brand logo. ### Architect / Designer @ SmithGroupJJR Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 Managed multiple concurrent office design projects, including design, delivery, client communications, and construction, ensuring a high level of quality of design and service. clients: William Blair, JMBM, Microsoft, Environ ### Architect / Designer @ Gensler Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | Seattle / San Jose Architect and project designer for national and global accounts, managing and coordinating projects in person or remotely via conference calls and virtual room meetings / presentations clients: Hewlett Packard, Salesforce, McKinstry, T Mobile, Boeing, IBM, Northbridge, Contract Office Group ### Architect / Designer @ NBBJ Jan 2006 – Jan 2009 Architect and designer on workplace design projects which emphasized design research, discovery process, and strategic design as a means to transform the culture of organizations clients: Boeing, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, McKinstry, Russell Investments, R.C. Hedreen, PLU ### Intern Architect @ Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 ### Teaching Assistant @ Emily Carr Institute Jan 2004 – Jan 2004 Prepared / led weekly seminar on early modern design history ## Education ### Master of Architecture in Architectural Design The University of British Columbia ### Bachelor of Commerce in Commerce and Finance University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management ### User Experience Design Immersive in Product Design and Research General Assembly ### Front End Web Development General Assembly ### Computer Aided Design Certificate in 3D Visualization and BIM Boston Architectural College ### Completed all Architect Registration Examinations National Council of Architecture Registration Boards ### O.S.S.D. Upper Canada College ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/samuelsze - Website: http://www.samuelsze.net --- Source: https://flows.cv/samuelsze JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/samuelsze/resume.json Last updated: 2026-02-23